Forest Products from Latin America. Annotated Bibliography of ...

document (Analise do sistema de comercializacao interna de
madeira e derivados. Parte III - Documento informativo).
Brasilia, Brazil: Ministerio da Agricultura, IBDF: 54 p.
Describes activities of the Department of Industrialization
and Commercialization (Ministry of Agriculture), with par-
ticular reference to legislation.
Cerda-V., I.; Contreras-D., V. 1979. Exports of
Chilean forest products, 1978 (Exportaciones forestales
Chilenas 1978). Santiago, Chile: Instituto Forestal. In-
forme Tecnico. 71:119.
The value of forest products exported by Chile in 1978 was
US $236.9 million, $56 million more than in the previous
year. The growing importance of exports of forest prod-
ucts in the national economy is noted, and detailed statis-
tical data for 1978 are presented on the types of products
exported, markets, prices, and ports used. The volumes
of round timber, pulpwood, and sawn timber exported by
Chile are compared with the total world exports of these
products.
Chardin, A.; Bege, P. 1984. Measurement of the longitu-
dinal component of growth stresses in native (French) and
French Guianese species (Determination de la composante
longitudinale du champ des contraintes de croissance dans
essences metropolitaines et guyanaises). In: Groupe de tra-
vail no. 1. La matiere premiere. Sous-groupe 1.4 - Con-
traintes de croissance. Colloque sciences et industries du
bois. Grenoble du 20 au 22 septembre 1982. Paris, France:
Centre Technique Forestier Tropical: 159-173.
Chen, C.M. 1975. Relationship of wettability to water
of hydration of selected tropical woods. Wood Science.
7( 3) : 198-200.
The contact angles (theta) for distilled water were mea-
sured on 13 tropical hardwoods. Cos theta decreased with
an increase in the average molecular weight of wood sub-
stance (M) required to absorb one molecular weight of
water of hydration. Regression analysis showed that the
dependence of cos theta on M was significant at the 5 per-
cent level. No significant relation existed between theta and
fibre saturation point or the water of solution.
Chudnoff, M.; Youngs, R.L. 1980. Evaluating concepts
for the improved utilization of tropical timber resources.
Unasylva. 32(128):27-28.
Unlike temperate regions, tropical forests have a tremen-
dous number of tree species, which complicates their uti-
lization. The need for better use of these resources, and
several general methods of accomplishing this, is discussed.
Cliff, E.P. 1973. Utilization of tropical forests. Washing-
ton, DC: Agency for International Development Reference
Center. TA/OST 73-20. 26 p.
Summarizes the results of a review of forestry literature
published since 1946 (mostly by employees of the Agency
for International Development) and available at the Cen-
tre. Forestry and land use problems in tropical forests are
listed and discussed, and measures recommended to im-
prove forestry programmes and the utilization of unused
and little-used species are examined.
Collardet, J. 1979. Grading and standardization of trop-
ical timbers (Le classement et la normalisation des bois
tropicaux). In: Economic Commission for Europe, Timber
Committee: Seminar on the utilization of tropical hard-
woods; 1979 May 15-18; Amsterdam, Netherlands. ECE
Rep. TIM/SEM.8/R.16.
Commonwealth Science Council. 1978. Report of a
Caribbean meeting on utilization of natural products; 1978
June 6-8; Georgetown, Guyana. London, UK: Common-
wealth Science Council. Commonwealth Secretariat. Rep.
CSC(78)NP 1. 23 p.
Describes research on: medicinal and toxic plant products;
forest products; waste products from agriculture-based in-
dustries; marine natural products; and plant-derived indus-
trial products.
Commonwealth Science Council. 1979. Report of the
second Caribbean meeting on utilization of natural prod-
ucts; 1979 April 23-27; Port of Spain, Trinidad. London,
UK: Commonwealth Science Council. Commonwealth Sec-
retariat. Rep. CSC(79)NP 2. 59 p.
CORMA. 1960. Wood, properties, classification, averages,
and applications. 2d ed. (Maderas, propiedades, clasifi-
cacion, medicion y aplicaciones 2d ed.). Santiago, Chile:
Corporacion Chilena de la Madera, Departamento Tecnico.
79 p.
Cortes-S., H.; Contreras-S., M. 1977. Determination
of the value of standing timber (Determinacion del valor de
la madera en pie). Santiago, Chile: Facultad de Ciencias
Forestales, Universidad de Chile. Boletin Tecnico. 40:36.
A study of different approaches to the valuation of standing
timber in the context of forestry in the indigenous forests
of the Panguipulli region of Chile, and of the present and
probable future development of forest industry in the area.
Direct and indirect methods of valuation are discussed, and
it is concluded that the indirect method based on deter-
mining the residual value of standing timber (defined as the
sale value of the final product less the total cost of conver-
sion) is the only practicable approach to the problem under
the conditions described.
CTFT. 1973. Investigations and tests carried out on trop-
ical timber by several research laboratories (Recherches
et essais effectues sur les bois tropicaux par divers organ-
ismes de recherches). Nogent-sur- Marne, France. Centre
Technique Forestier Tropical. 291 p.
Describes in tabular form, information on the tests used
and species tested at the following laboratories: Australia -
Forest Products Laboratory, CSIRO, Melbourne; Belgium -
Station de Technologie Forestiere, Ministere d’Agriculture,
Gembloux, and Laboratoire Forestier de l’Universite de
Louvain, Louvain; France - Centre Technique Forestier
Tropical, Nogent-sur-Marne; Madagascar - Centre Tech-
nique Forestier Tropical, Tananarive; Germany Bundes-
forschungsanstalt fur Forst- und Holzwirtschaft, Reinbek;
Netherlands - Houtinstituut TNO, Delft; Portugal - Labo-
ratorio Nacional de Engenharia Civil, and Laboratorio de
Histologia e Tecnologia de Madeiras, Lisbon; Spain - In-
stituto Forestal de Investigaciones y Experiencias, Madrid;
and UK - Forest Products Research Laboratory, Princes
Risborough. Within these laboratories are 1068 research
files on tropical woods, covering 732 species.
Cueva-G., L. de la. 1978. Analysis of forest production
in Mexico 1971-1976 (Analisis de la produccion forestal
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